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[ål3ø®tëd~ghØst]

I was just wondering if torrents were more popular now than limewire and crap...God i hope they are. Anyways.....can i post a torrent site or is that against the rules?

[Cory]

Posting the sites ( as in warez sites) are against the rules. Don't see why we wouldn't be able to talk about it though.

Most of the top torrent trackers lately have been closed down. Only one left, the king of them all. That is public and doesn't have any god shit anymore. : <

[ål3ø®tëd~ghØst]

Alright...wow didnt know the good ones were down til just now when i checked...youre right. i saw a post on how people got their music so i figured it was ok to ask if people used torrents. thats like asking if people use neopet hacks right?

[Bão]

I was just wondering if torrents were more popular now than limewire and crap

To answer your question, torrents are more popular than limewire now.

[DudeOnline]

who uses limewire anymore? frostwire FTW.

[Cory]

Lawl @ people who use Frostwire.


Only p2p that is any good anymore is soul seek. It blows too though. : < WTB back demonoid for movies and oink for music. QQ

[ål3ø®tëd~ghØst]

Demonoid got shut down .....that is PURE evil!

[tastyphoxette]

Demonoid got shut down .....that is PURE evil!

That pissed me the hell off. It took forever and a half for me to get a demonoid account--I kept missing the time.

Then a friend wakes me up at three in the morning because they were accepting new members and I FINALLY GOT IN.
Less than a year later, it's dead.

Damnit.

[Alex]

Yea thats total bullcrap, why didn't demonoid just move their server location else where? To sweden maybe?

[Melchoire]

who uses limewire anymore? frostwire FTW.

I use frostwire on ubuntu, it's way faster than limewire+windows for some reason

[fruglemonkey]

My experience with limewire:

Search: Halo:ghosts of onyx

Results: XxX Halo:ghosts of onyx
Halo:ghosts of onyx 100% cracked
CrACked Halo:ghosts of onyx
100% free Halo:ghosts of onyx

and so on and so forth.

[tastyphoxette]

I always found limewire to be made of fail and lose. :\

I'd try to download something... and it'd end up being some completely different sponsor jargon.

: Hence Torrents are better. XD

[Oaken]

Never liked Limewire, I thought it's popularity died down long ago. I used bearshare for a while and then discovered torrents. Never used anything else since

[arthritis]

Well, personally, i use uTorrent, but i feel that if i'm just downloading one song, it's really not worth it. It'd be faster if i had bearshare / limewire / ares just to get that song. But it's great for downloading series, movies and stuff .

[Oaken]

Well, personally, i use uTorrent, but i feel that if i'm just downloading one song, it's really not worth it. It'd be faster if i had bearshare / limewire / ares just to get that song. But it's great for downloading series, movies and stuff .

Just pick an album and select the song you want from that album when the contents of the folder come up then download the single song if that's all you want....job done

I find torrents are generally safer because people can pass opinion on them.

[Bão]

Lawl @ people who use Frostwire.
WTB back demonoid for movies and oink for music. QQ

I was never a member of Oink and only hear the best of it. TPB will be opening something similar soon. The thing is, it'll be public. As for Demonoid, it'll be back sometime soon. Either way, several new sites are springing up as the war wages.

[ål3ø®tëd~ghØst]

Yeah, once i started using torrents i never went back to all the p2p crap. The fact that people could post their oppinions on the files was very helpful too. and not once have i gotten a virus or anything bad from a torrent in the past year and a half. I started off using torrentspy and migrated to demonoid way back over a year ago when they were completely private. since then ive found everything i want and then some on demonoid but not anymore. I agree with Alex. They couldve moved to their servers and kept from shutting down. Hell Piratebay hasnt been shut down because sweden (i think thats where they are located) allow the kind of service that it provides....Piratebay was even trying to buy their own private island a little while back (well an oil rig it was going to call its island) where they could be under no government and run their servers at will.

[Cory]

Yeah, once i started using torrents i never went back to all the p2p crap. The fact that people could post their oppinions on the files was very helpful too. and not once have i gotten a virus or anything bad from a torrent in the past year and a half. I started off using torrentspy and migrated to demonoid way back over a year ago when they were completely private. since then ive found everything i want and then some on demonoid but not anymore. I agree with Alex. They couldve moved to their servers and kept from shutting down. Hell Piratebay hasnt been shut down because sweden (i think thats where they are located) allow the kind of service that it provides....Piratebay was even trying to buy their own private island a little while back (well an oil rig it was going to call its island) where they could be under no government and run their servers at will.

It wouldn't have mattered. Governments would have still arrested their ass when they stepped foot on their soil. They have been extremely lucky so far as to not completely get barked up in court. I think it's only a matter of time before something happens to them though. Pirated content as we know it is slowly fading away. It's going to grow into smaller tighter pockets and you can only hope that your on the inside.

Personally I love torrents if they work like they are supposed to, but a lot of times they don't. I'm a bigger fan of single download rapid share any day of the week.

[Fatal]

I still dont understand why P2P and torrent are still popular...............

[dolphinbomb]

I still dont understand why P2P and torrent are still popular...............

It's because people don't want to learn how to use/pay for usenet

[Plew]

It's because people don't want to learn how to use/pay for usenet

Exactly

man i just got my demonoid account a 2 months ago and it was the best i dont think itll come back

i use a combination of torrents and p2p. P2p= 1 song download ...Torrent= full albums

[Charmender]

Heh you guys should get into scene releases and then buy rapidshare, much better than the shit axxo churns out, and faster than torrents too.

[Fatal]

if you have money, usenet is a way better investment over rapidshare IMO, and a lot of people can get a free usenet account from their ISP, they're just stupid and dont use it

US:

Cox, Roadrunner, Adelphia, Charter, Key West, Optimum Online, Qwest, RCN, SBC, Verizon, Windstream

All those ISP's have free badass usenet services.


UK:

Blueyonder , Clara, Karoo, Nildram, Virgin Broadband, Zen - all have great usenet services

Australia:

BigPond, iiNet, Internode - All have good services

Canada:

FCI Broadband, InterNet Kingston , Mountain Cablevision, Nexicom - all good services

So for many there is no excuse But you guys can continue using that torrent shit

Edited by Fatal, 25 November 2007 - 02:49 AM.

[Sweeney]

if you have money, usenet is a way better investment over rapidshare IMO, and a lot of people can get a free usenet account from their ISP, they're just stupid and dont use it

US:

Cox, Roadrunner, Adelphia, Charter, Key West, Optimum Online, Qwest, RCN, SBC, Verizon, Windstream

All those ISP's have free badass usenet services.
UK:

Blueyonder , Clara, Karoo, Nildram, Virgin Broadband, Zen - all have great usenet services

Australia:

BigPond, iiNet, Internode - All have good services

Canada:

FCI Broadband, InterNet Kingston , Mountain Cablevision, Nexicom - all good services

So for many there is no excuse But you guys can continue using that torrent shit

Wha? Elucidate!
How can I use my Virgin Broadband usenet?

[GamerAsh]

if you have money, usenet is a way better investment over rapidshare IMO, and a lot of people can get a free usenet account from their ISP, they're just stupid and dont use it

US:

Cox, Roadrunner, Adelphia, Charter, Key West, Optimum Online, Qwest, RCN, SBC, Verizon, Windstream

All those ISP's have free badass usenet services.


UK:

Blueyonder , Clara, Karoo, Nildram, Virgin Broadband, Zen - all have great usenet services

Australia:

BigPond, iiNet, Internode - All have good services

Canada:

FCI Broadband, InterNet Kingston , Mountain Cablevision, Nexicom - all good services

So for many there is no excuse But you guys can continue using that torrent shit

As far as i', aware Virgin Broadband does not have a usenet service. I use giganews, and Newzbin for search. I also use Newsleecher as the client. I'm also apart of Torrentleech, and was a power use at oinks for over a year. I nearly cried when it got shut down. I don't care for much public torrent sites except isohunt which suprisingly as more older stuff than most private sites. Giganews is best so far. I get around 1.5-2.5 megs per second on any download. On privates I usually get around the same speed but only when theres alot of seeders.